..1-3.0% had a child or elder removed from the home. These results suggest that compulsive hoarding represents a profound public health burden in terms of occupational impairment, poor physical health, and social service involvement...

Not just right experiences and obsessive-compulsive features: experimental and self-monitoring perspectives

..Cognitive-behavioral treatments for obsessive-compulsive disorder have also fared badly in the treatment of hoarding. However, therapy based on a cognitive-behavioral model of hoarding has shown considerable promise...

..Thought listing may have reduced avoidance of decision-making about discarding or perhaps CR, but not TL, provoked therapeutic reactance. Discarding was not related to reductions in distress or hoarding-related beliefs. ..

..Study 2 replicated the findings of study 1 using interview and observational measures taken in participants' homes. These findings suggest that a facilitated biblio-based group may be a promising intervention for hoarding disorder...